liii, 286 pages, 1 leaf : 41 cm

Title in red and black. Each plate has guard sheet with descriptive letterpress

"The design on the cover is taken from a seal of Edward, Second Duke of York, figuring in the work of Francis Sanford, Lancaster Herald of Arms, published 1677."

Frontispiece: Gaston Phoebus (Count Gaston de Foix) surrounded by huntsmen and hounds (produced by 78 colour-printings by W. Griggs & Sons)

"Only 600 copies bound with these plates are for sale, of which half are reserved for subscribers in England, the remainder for America and the Continent. Nos. 1-10 are printed on Japanese hand-made vellum paper, and bound by Zaehnsdorf"--Page ii

"List of books consulted": pages l-liii

"General bibliography of books and mss. on hunting in the principal European languages up to the end of the 16th century": pages 213-272

"Glossary of the obsolete sporting terms and words": pages [273]-279

"Written between the years 1406 and 1413 by ... Edward, Second Duke of York ... The greater part ... is a careful translation from ... Count Gaston de Foix's livre de chasse, or, as author and book are often called, Gaston Phoebus, which was condemned ... on May 1, 1387. Of the thirty-six chapters in the 'Master of game' only five are original ... These are printed in italics in the old English text. The latter is reproduced from the Cottonian ms. Vespasian B. XII, dating from about 1420 ... Side by side with the old text a modernised version is printed."--Introduction5

Includes index

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